School Nurses and principals receive support for student needs

CLUB SERVICE PROJECTS

The Aquia Evening Lions Club participates in and supports the following projects:

• Support-a-School Nurse (help fund extra expenses for the clinics)
• School supplies (purchase needed supplies for students)
• Annual College Scholarships (awarded to local high school seniors)
• Aquia Harbour Fourth of July Celebration (with Aquia Harbour POA and Events Committee)
• Special Needs Christmas Party (gift shopping and wrapping to assist Host Club)
• Eye exams and eyeglasses (provided to local middle school and high school students referred by school nurses based on need)
• Head Start Breakfast with Santa (shop and wrap gifts from children's wish list, serve breakfast to families, have Santa arrive with gifts)
• Head Start Food Pantry (collect dry and canned goods at each meeting)
• Kids for a Cure Club Camp (5-day camp for Type 1 diabetic children, assist financially and help with crafts at camp)
• Lions Peace Poster Contest (middle school art to teach about peace)
• Prom Night support (annual donation to after-prom party)
• SERVE (Stafford Emergency Relief through Volunteer Efforts donations)
• Empower House (donations to family domestic violence shelter)
• Virginia Lions Eyeglass Recycling at Lake of the Woods (used eyeglass donations and monthly processing)
• Environmental Project (assist community with cleanup)
• KidSightUSA member (conduct vision screenings for children 6 months to 6 years to find and treat eye problems using SPOT photorefractive machine)  
• Sight and Hearing screenings at county schools (using SPOT and audiometer)
• Snowbags for Head Start (shop and prepare bags of food for families during inclement weather)

Club Fundraisers

• Aquia Harbour Country Club Breakfast with Santa
• Bourbon Dinner
• Combined Federal Campaign (AEL #:  99070)
• Community Yard Sale (rent spaces, sell refreshments, find bargains, have fun)
• Dining in the Dark (raise funds for sight research)
• Monte Carlo Night (card games with prizes, great food, even dancing)
• Oktoberfest (with Events Committee run refreshments booth)
• Paypal Donations (see button above)
• Poinsettia Sales (start holiday decorating with beautiful red and white flowers)
• Santa Home Visits (2020 visits will be outdoors and socially distanced)
• White Cane (annual fishnet collection for use in sight programs)
• Wine Dinner